Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre backstroke

Women's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 50 metre backstroke ; at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	July 31, 2013 (heats &; semifinals); August 1, 2013 (final)
Competitors	51 from 45 nations
Winning time	27.29
Medalists
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The women's 50 metre backstroke event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 31 July and 1 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

World record	Zhao Jing (CHN)	27.06	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009	^[3]^[4]
Competition record	Zhao Jing (CHN)	27.06	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009	^[3]^[4]

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:00.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Fu Yuanhui	China	27.55	Q
2	6	5	Zhao Jing	China	27.81	Q
3	5	4	Aya Terakawa	Japan	28.05	Q
4	4	5	Mercedes Peris	Spain	28.07	Q
5	5	5	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	28.16	Q
6	4	4	Rachel Bootsma	United States	28.28	Q
7	6	3	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	28.35	Q
7	6	6	Lauren Quigley	Great Britain	28.35	Q
9	5	2	Duane Da Rocha	Spain	28.37	Q
9	5	6	Aleksandra Urbanczyk	Poland	28.37	Q
11	6	2	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	28.38	Q, NR
12	4	9	Stephanie Au	Hong Kong	28.39	Q, NR
13	5	3	Missy Franklin	United States	28.44	Q, WD
13	6	8	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	28.44	Q
15	4	3	Emily Seebohm	Australia	28.48	Q
16	4	6	Sinead Russell	Canada	28.60	Q
17	4	8	Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir	Iceland	28.62	NR
17	5	9	Anni Alitalo	Finland	28.62	Q, NR
19	4	7	Klaudia Nazieblo	Poland	28.65
20	3	7	Amit Ivry	Israel	28.75	NR
21	6	7	Belinda Hocking	Australia	28.80
22	4	2	Theodora Drakou	Greece	28.81
22	6	1	Daria Ustinova	Russia	28.81
24	6	9	Tao Li	Singapore	28.90
25	4	1	Carolina Colorado Henao	Colombia	29.08
25	6	0	Jessica Ashley-Cooper	South Africa	29.08
27	5	0	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	29.16
28	3	3	Fernanda González	Mexico	29.17
29	5	8	Kim Ji-Hyun	South Korea	29.18
30	4	0	Yekaterina Rudenko	Kazakhstan	29.19
31	5	1	Magdalena Kuras	Sweden	29.39
32	3	6	Gisela Morales	Guatemala	29.42
33	5	7	Selina Hocke	Germany	29.50
34	3	4	Jeserik Pinto	Venezuela	29.62
35	3	1	Ekaterina Avramova	Bulgaria	29.75
36	3	9	Barbara Caraballo	Puerto Rico	29.80	NR
37	3	2	Yulduz Kuchkarova	Uzbekistan	29.84
38	3	5	Hazal Sarıkaya	Turkey	30.15
39	2	4	Caroline Puamau	Fiji	30.36
40	3	0	Birita Debes	Faroe Islands	30.57	NR
41	3	8	Heather Arseth	Mauritius	30.61
42	2	5	Siona Huxley	Saint Lucia	31.33
43	2	2	Faye Sultan	Kuwait	31.36
44	2	6	Kuan Weng I	Macau	31.64
45	2	8	Evelina Afoa	Samoa	31.67
46	2	3	Nadeera Jayasekera	Sri Lanka	32.33
47	2	1	Caylee Watson	U.S. Virgin Islands	32.38
48	2	0	Nur Hamizah Ahmad	Brunei	33.85
49	1	5	Colleen Furgeson	Marshall Islands	34.48
50	1	4	Osisang Chilton	Palau	34.60
51	2	9	Khadidiatou Dieng	Senegal	34.90
	1	3	Meseret Amare	Ethiopia		DNS
	2	7	Khahliso Mpeta	Lesotho		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:12.^[6]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Mercedes Peris	Spain	27.71	Q, NR
2	4	Zhao Jing	China	27.87	Q
3	3	Rachel Bootsma	United States	27.93	Q
4	6	Lauren Quigley	Great Britain	28.02	Q
5	2	Duane Da Rocha	Spain	28.25
6	1	Emily Seebohm	Australia	28.29
7	7	Stephanie Au	Hong Kong	28.33	NR
8	8	Anni Alitalo	Finland	28.61	NR

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Fu Yuanhui	China	27.40	Q
2	5	Aya Terakawa	Japan	27.70	Q, NR
3	3	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	27.89	Q
4	6	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	28.05	Q
5	7	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	28.20	NR
6	2	Aleksandra Urbańczyk	Poland	28.25
7	8	Sinead Russell	Canada	28.35
8	1	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	28.60

Final

The final was held at 19:14.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Zhao Jing	China	27.29
	4	Fu Yuanhui	China	27.39
	5	Aya Terakawa	Japan	27.53	NR
4	2	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	27.83
5	3	Mercedes Peris	Spain	27.93
6	8	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	27.96
7	7	Rachel Bootsma	United States	28.05
8	1	Lauren Quigley	Great Britain	28.33